The following photos were first posted on the Facebook Group Vintage Chesapeake Proctorville South Point by Jason Sloan. Permission was granted for The Lawrence Register. He writes: "From the photo...
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E. W. Crichton
Ernest Whitcomb Crichton Source: Portland, Oregon, It's History and Builders, by Joseph Gaston Among those who have been most active in keeping navigation interest in the northwest up to the high...
Another Steamboat for the Kaw
Western Home Journal Lawrence, KS February 10, 1859 Another Steamboat for the Kaw - the many friends and the business community at this and other points on the Kaw River will be glad to learn that...
Capt. William T. Scoville
Capt. W. T. Scovell Death In Jeffersonville of The Red River Veteran. Sketch of an Old-Time Steamboatman Whom Stonewall Jackson Honored and Relied Upon as a Soldier. SOURCE: The Times-Democrat, New...
Follow the Rails with Railroad Tales
Follow the Rails with Railroad Tales, read the evolution of the railroads as found in the old newspapers around the Tri-State area of WV, KY, and Southern Ohio. From the Lawrence Register Archives
Ironton Ohio Yesterday Years
On Tuesday morn about eight o’clock a large number of our citizens, provoked beyond further endurance, took the law into their own hands and assembled on the bank of the river at East Ironton, near Graham’s liquor boat; a short speech was made, a committee appointed, and the person in charge of the boat notified to remove his nuisance outside the corporation, and fifteen minutes were given in which to start. At the expiration of the time, the boat was peaceable manned and taken two miles down the river.
Detroit Toledo & Ironton Railroad
An ordinance granting the Detroit, Toledo, and Ironton Railroad Company the right to remove tracks from the Second and Vesuvius Street crossing, was passed by City Council Friday evening and it is expected this work will be started in the immediate future.
Charles E. Watters
Charles E. Watters was a native of Maryland, where he was born on November 27, 1821; after leaving that State, in 1833, he settled in Portland, Jefferson County, Ohio, where he remained until 1847.
Captain W. H. Kerr
Yesterday, (Tuesday) about 12:00, Capt. W. H. Kerr came home on the Buckeye State. He had been sick for a month past, and when he landed was quite weak and rode up in a cab, but he was in good spirits and anticipated no serious results.
Fifty Emigrants for Oregon
Last December, Mr. T. R. Worthington came to this county to drum up laborers for the Oswego Iron Works, Oregon. Mr. Worthington is himself a collier,
The Princess Skating Rink in Ironton, Ohio
THE PRINCESS SKATING RINK was located on Third Street, now known as the Sportsman, put a lot of new life in that section of the city in 1903…The big building was erected by T. H. B. Jones, owner of...
The Boat Builders of WW2
THE BOAT BUILDERS – A friend suggested last week that if we had records of 1942 that we write a column about the boats built in Ironton during WWII, which not many people knew much about at that...
Captain William T. Scoville
Captain W. T. Scoville died at Jeffersonville, Indiana, last Monday. He was formerly a resident of Burlington and Ironton. In the former place he spent his boyhood days. In Ironton, Ohio.
Capt. John Combs Death
Ironton Register Aug. 23, 1894 Capt. John Combs died last Saturday and his funeral took place at the residence of Maj. Jere Davidson, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Rev. E. E. Moran conducted the...
A New Chu-Chu
Parents who only a few years ago took their children to the railway depot to see the steam locomotive, now take their grandchildren to Third Street to see the new electric train